Julia Adeney Thomas: The Anthropocene, Gebunden
The Anthropocene
Buch
- A Multidisciplinary Approach
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- Verlag:
- Polity Press, 11/2020
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781509534593
- Artikelnummer:
- 9895353
- Umfang:
- 288 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 498 g
- Maße:
- 235 x 159 mm
- Stärke:
- 28 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 23.11.2020
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Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and wide-ranging impacts that our planet no longer functions as it did during the previous eleven millennia. So distinctive is this collective human intervention that a new geological interval has been proposed; it is called the Anthropocene.The Anthropocene is intriguing scientifically, fascinating intellectually, and deeply disturbing politically, socially, economically, and ethically. We must learn how to co-exist sustainably with the rest of nature in what is emerging as a new planetary state. To do so, we must first understand what "Anthropocene" means in all its dimensions. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach, starting with an exploration of the Anthropocene as a geological concept: ranging across the physical changes to the landscape, to the rapidly heating climate, to a biosphere undergoing transformation. And what of the "anthropos" in the Anthropocene? While geoscience does not normally address political and ethical issues of justice and equity, or economics and culture, Anthropocene studies in the humanities and social sciences investigate the complexities of the human activity driving global change. Here the book looks at human history, both in the deep past and more recently, the politics and economics of growth spurring the Anthropocene, and potential ways of mitigating its cruel effects. Our fragile, still beautiful, planet is finite. The new realities of the Anthropocene will need our best efforts, across disciplinary divides, at effective hope and action.
Biografie (Mark Williams)
Mark Williams ist Professor für Klinische Psychologie an der Universität Oxford. Er ist Mitbegründer der erfolgreichen Therapieform Achtsamkeitsbasierte Kognitive Therapie (MBTC).Biografie (Jan Zalasiewicz)
Jan Zalasiewicz is a lecturer in Geology at the University of Leicester. A field geologist, palaeontologist and statigrapher, he teaches various aspects of geology and Earth history to undergraduate and postgraduate students. He has published over a hundred papers in scientific journals.
Julia Adeney Thomas, Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz
The Anthropocene
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